Woke to the tweets of 100s of swallows feeding their young on the veranda
where they have built nests. Great
sight but a mess for the motel people to clean up.
As we passed through Kozloduy about 0800h the streets had already been
swept clean by a team of sweepers using brush brooms. Good to see a proud people keeping their
surrounds clean. This was a similar
story with many of the villages we passed through.
While heading out of the city Fred said, "that building must use a lot
of power as there's a hell of a lot of very high voltage lines going into
it." It was actually the nuclear
power station complete with a couple of 30m high atomic energy signs. Fred was joking.
Another long, hard "undulating" day with temps constantly over
30deg. Mainly rural landscape with well spread out towns, each with it's
post-communist abandoned factories and housing projects. Orjahovo even had a fairly smart looking 10 -
12 floor motel that is now in various stages of decay. Occasionally we were able to enjoy stunning
glimpses of the
Straight after lunch (becoming a habit) we hit a monster climb; 3 x 10%, 2 x 11% and 1 x 12 %er. The thermometer
was at that stage sitting on 38deg. Met
Peter from
Our stopover tonight at Zagrazhden was a real mystery bag as we could not
find the motel we were hoping to stay at on the net or in any accommodation
directory. So we lobbed up on spec;
unfortunately they were closed for renovations. No amount of crying (by the boys) and phoning a friend could get them to
change their minds. So back in the
saddle we got and headed off on an ugly road the way we had just ridden. A little hard to do after 107kms of hard
slog. It all turned out well as we only
had to back-track 15km and the place we ended up was right on the Danube. The
rooms are basic but clean and the attached (no one was keen on riding into
town) restaurant served big cold beers and the food was excellent.
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